Baylor University News

Baylor University and Harvard Medical School Researchers Help Make Pediatric Eye Cancer Easier to Detect
[11/6/2013]
WACO, Texas (Nov. 6, 2013) -- Can parents use digital cameras and smart phones to potentially screen their children for the most common form of pediatric eye cancer? Baylor University and Harvard Medical School researchers believe so.
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'On Topic with Ken Starr' To Feature Conversation Sept. 10 with Os Guinness, Author of 'The Global Public Square'
[9/6/2013]
WACO, Texas (Sept. 6, 2013) - Baylor University President Ken Starr will welcome prolific writer and social critic Os Guinness, author of the just-released book The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity, for "On Topic," a series of compelling conversations on contemporary issues, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Waco Hall on the Baylor campus.
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President Starr Talks 'Religious Liberty' Past and Present at Lifelong Learning Program for Alumni and Friends
[9/6/2013]
WACO, Texas (Aug. 30, 2013) - Baylor University President Ken Starr stepped away from Pat Neff Hall and slipped back into the University's Lifelong Learning classroom for alumni and friends during the program's "Coffee with President Starr" event today in Barfield Drawing Room.
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Two Baylor Entities Merge to Encourage Deeper Moral and Theological Reflection
[9/4/2013]
WACO, Texas (Sept. 4, 2013) -- Baylor University Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Davis, Ph.D., has announced that the Center for Christian Ethics, located at Baylor since 2000 to engage Christians in reflection about significant ethical issues, has merged with the Institute for Faith and Learning (IFL), effective at the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year. The Center's director, Robert Kruschwitz, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, has joined IFL as a senior scholar.
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Bryan W. Brooks receives Fulbright Scholar Award
[9/13/2013]
Bryan W. Brooks, Ph.D., professor of environmental science and biomedical studies in Baylor University's College of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research during the 2013-14 academic year at the University of Lethbridge in Canada.
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Environmental science professor honored with Fulbright Scholar Award
[9/3/2013]
One of the benefits of university professors being involved in cutting edge research is the knowledge they then bring back to the classroom to share with students. A year from now, Dr. Bryan Brooks will return to his upper-level environmental studies with a host of new things to share. Brooks, a professor of environmental science [...]
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Dean Garland Honored with Festschrift
[9/4/2013]
WACO, Texas (Sept. 4, 2013) - Scholars tend to be known as never having enough to say. It's not too often that one is rendered speechless.
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AirBear Outage 09/05/13
[9/4/2013]
Maintenance must be performed on the Baylor AirBear network on Thursday evening, September 5 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
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Courtney Lyons Receives 2013 NABPR Dissertation Fellowship
[10/2/2013]
This Spring, doctoral candidate Courtney Lyons received the 2013 NABPR Dissertation Fellowship. The highly competitive award is presented to one advanced graduate student each year by the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion.
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Graduate Student Wins Beall Poetry Prizes
[8/26/2013]
A.E. Stallings is a critically-acclaimed author and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the Genius Grant. She is also one of the world's leading poets, a guest of honor at numerous poetry festivals, and apparently a big fan of Baylor poetry.
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Baylor alum named among nation&#8217;s 20 most influential in healthcare
[9/23/2013]
As president and CEO of Baylor Health Care System, Joel Allison, BA ’70, has overseen a great deal of change during the past year. But one honor has remained amazingly consistent for the Baylor graduate; for the ninth time in the last 10 years, Allison has been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most [...]
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TextilesUpdate.com: Novelty of Eco-Friendly Bamboo Garments Lures Consumers - If the Price Is Right
[9/25/2013]
Sept. 21, 2013
Article about the research conducted by Jay Yoo, Ph.D., an assistant professor of family and consumer sciences in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences, which suggests that consumers are attracted to price and novelty when purchasing eco-friendly bamboo garments.
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Lab Online (Australia): Unprecedented chemical profiles found in whale earwax
[9/25/2013]
Sept. 25, 2013
Baylor researchers Sascha Usenko, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental science, and Stephen Trumble, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, both in the College of Arts & Sciences, have developed a groundbreaking scientific technique using a whale's earwax to reconstruct a whale's life history.
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Inhabitat.com: Whale Ear Wax Used to Form a Detailed Record of Ocean Pollutants
[9/25/2013]
Sept. 23, 2013
Baylor researchers Sascha Usenko, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental science, and Stephen Trumble, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, both in the College of Arts & Sciences, have developed a groundbreaking scientific technique using a whale's earwax to reconstruct a whale's life history.
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South China Morning Post: Whale's earwax provides a hormonal and chemical biography
[9/25/2013]
Sept. 25, 2013
Baylor researchers Sascha Usenko, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental science, and Stephen Trumble, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, both in the College of Arts & Sciences, have developed a groundbreaking scientific technique using a whale's earwax to reconstruct a whale's life history.
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Baylor study: 10-inch whale earwax &#8212; yes, ewww &#8212; reveals a lifetime of pollution exposure
[9/25/2013]
A chance conversation between two Baylor professors while walking across campus has led to new insights on how pollutants and other man-made stressors impact marine animals. While strolling across the Baylor campus to get coffee, Dr. Stephen Trumble, an assistant professor of biology, was describing to his colleague how biologists use the layers in a [...]
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